Researchers Develop fMRI-Based Model to Reconstruct Moving Images that People Are Seeing

September 23rd, 2011

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Cryptogon
Friday, September 23, 2011

Many articles that I’ve read about this don’t mention the little detail that this is based on data obtained through the use of fMRI. This MIT Technology Reviewpiece deals with that right up front. In case you don’t know, fMRI is not a technology that we’re going to be walking around with anytime soon.

…even so, Brainstorm is still one of my favorite sci-fi movies:

‘Brainstorm’ 1983 MGM

This AP story contains some other images from the research.

And here’s a video clip:

Via: MIT Technology Review:

Scientists are a step closer to constructing a digital version of the human visual system. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed an algorithm that can be applied to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) imagery to show a moving image a person is seeing.

Neuroscientists have been using fMRI to study the human visual system for years, which involves measuring changes in blood oxygen levels in the brain. This works fine for studying how we see static images, but it falls short when it comes to moving imagery. Individual neuronal activity occurs over a much faster time scale, so a few years ago the researchers behind the current study set out to devise a computer model to measure this instead. The study shows that this new approach is not only successful but remarkably accurate.

The study, which appears in Current Biology this week, marks the first time that anyone has used brain imaging to determine what moving images a person is seeing. It could help researchers model the human visual system on a computer, and it raises the tantalizing prospect of one day being able to use the model to reconstruct other types of dynamic imagery, such as dreams and memories.

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7 Responses to “Researchers Develop fMRI-Based Model to Reconstruct Moving Images that People Are Seeing”

The purpose being? Like the movie “Total Recall” where the scanner watches people and detects weapons and such. Or for automatic weapons to detect movement as in “Aliens” what next “SkyNet” watching us….?

Quantummonkeybutt Reply:
September 23rd, 2011 at 9:25 am

“Researchers Develop fMRI-Based Model to Reconstruct Moving Images that People Are Seeing”

My Friend Sitting Next To Me Says You’re Full Of Shit…

Of Course, He Thinks He Knows EVERYTHING…

’911′ Was Committed By Osama Bin Laden, The Moon Is Made Of Green Cheese, And Truffula Trees Are Not Extinct…

QMB
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Understanding how every stage of processing of human vision works, always leads to new technologies. We get 100 Megapixel digital cameras from understanding how the retina detects color. That led on to data compression, motion deblurring/stabilization for the file industry, motion detection for home security. Start analysing stereoscopic vision, silhouettes and shadowing, and we get the Kinect motion processing system for game systems. Congitive psychologists learned lot from understanding that the retina processes texture patterns using different cells to detect individual points, rings, edges and corners.

Having autonomous roving vehicles for hostile environments (battlefields, deep space, ocean beds) are the research areas that really need to have machines that can navigate terrain automatically.

Another benefit is that we might be able to replace damaged areas of the brain if we can determine what the neural signals processed by each neural layers of the brain mean. Neurons actually encode the amount of some input as the inverse time period between pulses. Shorter time pulses mean stronger signals.
Human-machine interface ,so we are getting closer to the CYBORG PRODUCTION
At the moment lots of CPU and memory are available,they just need the graphic interface to make CYBORGS
Somehow we the humans are becoming obsolete,we cant expand more megapixels like the robots
Yeah … we’ll be able to see, the way a housefly sees.
Wait a minute, for every good thing, there’s a ton of bad too ! What if the development becomes so finely-tuned that it’s manufactured into a chip, it could make you see things that aren’t true too !

Before long, a criminal will have a grinder-chip put in his head that if he’s doing something evil, it can automatically grind-up his brain ! I guess that’ll be the new form of capital punishment in the future? With these combination of chips, you won’t need law enforcement, the chips will be Judge and Executioner all in one ! It’ll store all the events in memory to be extracted during autopsy.

Isn’t life getting sick !?
Measuring “individual neuronal activity” sounds like mind reading.

They will not only see what you are seeing, they will do a little bit more than that.